The 45-year-old actress first went public with her accusation in The New York Times last October. Weinstein had hired Paltrow, then 22, as the lead in the Mirmax films Emma and Shakespeare in Love.

She said that before the shooting began, he asked her to his suite at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for a work meeting which the actress says ended with Weinstein placing his hands on her and suggesting they head to the bedroom for massages.

“I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” she said in the interview with the Times, publicly disclosing that she was sexually harassed by the man who ignited her career and later helped her win an Academy Award.

The Times article also stated: “She refused his advances, she said, and confided in Pitt, her boyfriend at the time. Mr. Pitt confronted Mr. Weinstein, and soon after, the producer warned her not to tell anyone else about his come-on. ‘I thought he was going to fire me,’” she said.